History of IDEA
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Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
John Deasy’s pressure chamber
- 05-19-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy was asked to talk about a career failure during a breakout session Wednesday at NewSchools Venture Fund’s annual Summit in Burlingame, the Lollapalooza for education reformers. Deasy talked about his first effort to move forward a multiple-measure teacher evaluation system combined with tenure and teacher compensation reform while superintendent in Prince George’s County, Md. This was years before the Obama Administration pushed the issue in Race to the Top and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan put it at the top of the agenda in a labor-management summit in Denver. “It all sounded good on paper,” he acknowledged, “but this proved to be a huge problem. There was no appetite at the state level. When it got sticky with labor unions, predictably – and I was hell bent on it – there was no national context, and I was left alone with a great idea.” (more...)
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